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Remnants of
A castled dream
A civil war soldier
Your beauty beamed
In a ramshackle bar
Shook free of dust
Uniform creased
A screeching lust.

I wanted to take you
In hands of war
You in white lace
Beside the door
Yes fairy eyes
And magic flowed
A dream in flight
That no one knows.

As alcohol hit
Brights lights sighed
The dream it faded
Hunched and died
The shadows fell
As did your hair
Blonde and curled
To shoulders bare.